cáith

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Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish cáith, from Proto-Celtic *kwātis, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kweh₁t- (“to shake”). Cognate with Scottish Gaelic càth.

Pronunciation

Noun

cáith f (genitive singular cátha)

  1. chaff

Declension

Declension of cáith (third declension, no plural)
bare forms
singular
nominative cáith
vocative a cháith
genitive cátha
dative cáith
forms with the definite article
singular
nominative an cháith
genitive na cátha
dative leis an gcáith
don cháith

Derived terms

Mutation

Mutated forms of cáith
radical lenition eclipsis
cáith cháith gcáith

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

  1. ^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cáith”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*kʷāti-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 175
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch , Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 148

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